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She admits killing Mr Kally, her partner of 23 years and the father of her two children, by hitting him 16 times with a pick axe and later burying his body, but claimed she had been acting in self defence.

Ms Williams began a relationship with Mr Grainger soon after she killed Mr Kally.

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Mr Kally's body was found in a shallow grave wrapped in a tarpaulin more than four years later.

Mr Grainger told the jury how he used to enjoy watching the football and going fishing in Port Arlington with Mr Kally before Angela turned up at his front door one day in July 2008, saying he had left her.

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"She was pretty upset, you know, destroyed, you know, that her partner for so long had left her. Physically she was just overly upset, overwhelmed."

Mr Grainger said Ms Williams told him that Doug "had given her a really hard time, pushed her around and threatened her and then he then told her to take her to Geelong - to take him to Geelong train station".

Ms Williams and her children then stayed at Mr Grainger's house for the next couple of days and during this time she claimed she had to go back to her house to do "general chores" when she was in fact, according to the Crown, wrapping Mr Kally's body in a tarpaulin and burying it in the backyard.

Mr Grainger said there was one occasion in September 2008 - two months after Mr Kally had disappeared - when he and the family were celebrating his daughter's 18th birthday and Ms Williams claimed Doug was calling her on her mobile.

Ms Williams told him she needed a bit of privacy so she went into the bedroom to take the call which lasted between five and 15 minutes.

When she came out of the bedroom, Ms Williams claimed Doug wanted her to move to Kiama in New South Wales (his favourite fishing spot) to be with him.

"She was upset but she'd said that she didn't want to ... because her father and her children were in the area and she didn't want to uproot the kids," Mr Grainger said.

He told the jury he began a relationship with Ms Williams about two to four months after Mr Kally had disappeared and it was "completely false" to suggest the couple had been having an affair while Doug was still alive.

Asked if Ms Williams had told him about Doug mistreating her, Mr Grainger said she claimed to have been physically, sexually and psychologically abused by Doug.

Mr Grainger said he had heard Doug call Ms Williams "a fat slut" in front of everyone and she would be in tears.